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Music unheard in public for almost a thousand years is being performed at Cambridge University, after two decades of detective work allowed it to be read for the first time.

The songs from the Middle Ages had been lost because of problems deciphering medieval scores. Now a researcher at the university has discovered a way of reconstructing the melodies from the original manuscripts.

Nicola Stanbridge has listened to the final result.

(Photo: Detail from Cambridge Songs manuscript leaf. Credit: Cambridge University Library)